A/HRC/45/14/Add.2 8. The country ranked twelfth on the Global AgeWatch Index 2015. It performed best in the health domain (ninth) and ranked high in the capability domain (fourteenth) with a high employment rate of older persons (74.4 per cent), and in the income security domain (twenty-third), with a pension income coverage of 98 per cent. Nevertheless, it faced significant challenges with regard to the enabling environment, for which it ranked thirtieth, notably with regard to the proportion of older persons who were satisfied with public transportation (49 per cent).5 III. Administrative, legal, institutional and policy framework 9. New Zealand is party to seven of the core human rights treaties: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocols; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict; the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol; and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In October 2016, New Zealand acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 10. New Zealand has not yet ratified the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights or the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. It has also not extended the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the territory of Tokelau.6 11. New Zealand is party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It is not, however, party to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 12. New Zealand is party to six of the eight fundamental International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions: the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29); the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98); the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100); the Convention concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957 (No. 105); the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111); and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). It has also ratified a number of other ILO conventions, such as the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160). Furthermore, it has submitted to the competent national authorities several recommendations relevant to older persons, including the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202); the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204); the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205); the Nursing Personnel Recommendation, 1977 (No. 157); the Labour Relations (Public Service) Recommendation, 1978 (No. 159); and the Labour Statistics Recommendation, 1985 (No. 170). 13. New Zealand has not ratified the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87); or the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138). It has also not ratified a number of other ILO instruments relevant to older persons, including the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189); the Migrant Workers Convention, 1975 (No. 143); the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 5 6 4 See www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/population-ageing-data/country-ageingdata/?country=New+Zealand. CRC/C/NZL/CO/5, para. 5.